"Nothing flatters
me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose-unless it
be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction."
- Poet Robert Frost

Since it first inspired the imagination of the
American public, baseball has been the inspiration of numerous songs
and musical compositions. On this page we have collected many
examples of this music, prepared as MP3 files. We have also
created and are offering for download 2 collections (our original collection and a new collection) of unique 19th
Century and early 20th Century sheet
music related to baseball.

"I see great things in baseball, It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism, tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set, repair those losses and be a blessing to us." - Walt Whitman

Baseball Sheet Music

All
of the following pieces of sheet music listed below, collections 1 & 2 are now
available for download. The music is scans of the original sheet music, and we provide this music in "PDF" format. The music in the PDF files is prepared for easy black and white printing on any desktop printer.
PDF
files are viewable and printable with the easy to download
and easy to use freeware
program Acrobat Reader, and other free programs
available online.

Downloading
The Baseball Sheet Music Collections

These collections of baseball sheet music in PDF f0rmat are available for download, in the form of "zip" files for $7.50.
You can purchase both of these collections using the following link. After your credit-card or Paypal payment is processed, you will be immediately directed to the download link .

This is a Windows screen saver, filled with dozens of original old- time baseball images, a few of which are featured on this page. The images are displayed randomly each time the screen saver opens. The images include engravings from publications, comic images, sheet music covers and more. After downloading the screensaver, you can copy it to the directory where your screensavers are saved and choose it as your default screensaver. Or on some Windows system you can "right click" on the downloaded file and choose "install", or "test" if you want to view the screen saver before installing. If you have any questions about this send us an - e-mail

The price is $2.00. After your Paypal or credit-card payment is processed, you will be immediately directed to the download link.

The Red Headed Outfield - Baseball stories by the famous author Zane Grey

A Ball Player's Career - Being the PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND REMINISCENCES of ADRIAN C. ANSON Late Manager and Captain of the Chicago Base Ball Club - 1900

Base Ball - How to Become a Player - With the Origin, History and Explanation of the Game - By John Montgomery Ward of the New York Base-Ball Club

The Baseball Joe Series By Lester Chadwick
The Baseball Joe books are novels written for kids but also quite entertaining to "adults" who never "grew up".

Baseball Joe In The World Series
Baseball Joe Around The World
Baseball Joe At Yale
Baseball Joe Captain Of The Team
Baseball Joe In The Central League
Baseball Joe Of The Silver Stars
Baseball Joe On The Giants
Baseball Joe On The School Nine
Baseball Joe The Homerun King

Pitching in a Pinch - or Baseball From The Inside by legendary pitcher - Christy Mathewson - 1912

All of the above ebooks are freely available for download in most standard formats such as "epub" and Kindle "mobi" from the Gutenberg web site, the Internet's oldest free book archive.

Jack Kerouac's Baseball Fantasy Game

An American baseball haiku, by the famous Beat poet Jack Kerouac (recorded with jazz and other haiku on Blues and Haikus in 1959):Empty baseball field
__ A robin,
Hops along the bench

One thing not too well known about the legendary American Beat writer and poet Jack Kerouac is that almost all his life he played a baseball card game of his own invention. Go to this page and read all about that amazing homemade baseball card game.

With its popular reputation and good wages, the Sousa
Band was able to recruit some of the best musicians around.

For 39 years, this large group toured the country by train.
A Sousa Band tour would last for many months, often with
several performances each day and only a few days off for
travel between cities. The band traveled to every corner
of the United States and did several European tours and
one world tour. Together they traveled more than 1 million
miles, and they still managed to find the time for other
fun.

The Sousa band had its own baseball team, and Sousa was
often the pitcher. They played against local baseball teams
and those of rival bands. Sousa composed the piece featured
here, The National Game(MP3).

Early American music,
unusual & unique music,
and ephemera collection.

The Cider Press Unique PDF ebook collection for historical researchers,
music history researchers and for the just plain curious folks out there....

Explore - The Amaranth Publishing links to the world's most mysterious book, The People's Conspiracy, the world's oldest song, the music of the spheres,
the music of the Illuminati, the world's oldest love song, the 19th Century American X-files, a way you can compose music like Mozart,
and much more........